Word: employable
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...First Amendment's ban on laws "respecting an establishment of religion." He found that creation science "embodies the religious belief that a supernatural creator was responsible for the creation of humankind." Therefore, he concluded, the statute's mandate that it be taught "advances a religious doctrine" and "seeks to employ the symbolic and financial support of government to achieve a religious purpose...
...Building Contractor Carl Capasso, was indicted on federal tax- evasion charges. Myerson hit bottom last week when Koch released classified details of an official investigation charging that she had improperly influenced Judge Hortense Gabel, who was handling Capasso's divorce case. The inquiry sharply criticized Myerson's decision to employ Gabel's daughter Sukhreet as her special assistant just two weeks before the judge slashed Capasso's alimony payments. The report also alleges a coverup: Myerson lied about the circumstances and timing of the hiring in a letter to Koch. Myerson denies acting illegally, but she is under investigation...
...least 850 maquiladoras employ 250,000 Mexicans at assembly work that was formerly done, by and large, by Americans. But U.S. businessmen insist that if the jobs did not go to Mexico, they would probably move across the Pacific. As it is, the U.S. has shared handsomely in the binational prosperity. A 1986 federal report said Mexican maquiladora workers spend about half their wages on the American side of the border. Local businessmen claim the industry is also supporting more than 800,000 jobs in factories, warehouses and other businesses...
According to one study, the cross-border factories could employ as many as 3 million workers by the year 2000. The projection assumes, of course, that the U.S. customs duties that have helped to foster the Mexican boom are not changed. If prosperity south of the border is matched by deeper woes to the north, however, that might not continue to be taken for granted...
However, as in most Spenser novels, there is also an emotional denouement. In Pale Kings it involves how Caroline Rogers, the wife of the police chief, handles both the loss of her husband and her son Brett, who just happened to be under Esteva's employ...